Why Did No One Notice Yosemite’s Horsetail “Firefall Effect” Before 1973?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When we were at Yosemite National Park a few weeks ago, we happened to be there during peak Horsetail Fall season. We didn’t plan this. It was just a coincidence. Nevertheless, there we were, and so we heard the story of Horsetail Fall two or…
Steve Bannon to French Far-Right: “Let Them Call You Racist…Wear It as a Badge of Honor”
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former White House strategist and Trump whisperer Steve Bannon has a message for members of France’s far-right, xenophobic National Front party. “Let them call you racist,” he told the crowd at the party’s congress in Lille on Saturday. “Let them…
Trump Is Mad About His Impulsive Decision to Meet With Kim Jong-un
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few days ago the White House along with South Korean officials announced that Kim Jong-un had invited President Donald Trump to to discuss North Korean denuclearization and that the president had accepted. This was immediately greeted with cautious optimism by many people who don’t…
Putin Responds to Charges of Russian Election Meddling: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Alexei Druzhinin/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a new set of interviews with NBC’s Megyn Kelly, put on a master class in misdirection and what-about-ism in response to questions about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s recent indictment of 13 Russian nationals and…
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Wanted A Live TV Debate Questioning Climate Change
Gage Skidmore/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scott Pruitt, the polluter-friendly chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, has already amassed a lengthy list of extreme, fringey accomplishments. As Rebecca Leber wrote in her recent Mother Jones cover story, Pruitt has set out to demolish one EPA policy after another during…
“What Really Stresses Me Out Is the Fact That I Might Die in This Building”
Mother Jones illustration; kieferpix/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. “It was no surprise to anyone who knew him to hear that he was the shooter.”—Emma Gonzalez, Senior, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Over the past three weeks, the impassioned voices and steadfast demands of…